The Players’ Aid
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We are a written blog and YouTube Channel that discuss all kinds of great historical games and wargames. Visit the blog at theplayersaid.com and our YouTube Channel at https://youtube.com/@theplayersaid?si=vRe0IU0jJ1142gnF
Our unboxing video for Armies & Alliances: Arnhem ’44 – Operation Market Garden from Cadet Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/29/u...
Unboxing Video: Armies & Alliances: Arnhem ’44 – Operation Market Garden from Cadet Games
Armies & Alliances: Arnhem ’44 is an Ameritrash game contains 114 minis and 52 game cards, plus the map is two big, bad 22″ x 34″ mounted sections that fold out for the ultima…
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November 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Our unboxing video for Armies & Alliances: Arnhem ’44 – Operation Market Garden from Cadet Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/29/u...
These both arrived today! Sinking Yamato is a lite little solo magazine game designed by Gregory M. Smith and Aces High is a new aerial combat game set during WWI from Aleph Game Studio.
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
These both arrived today! Sinking Yamato is a lite little solo magazine game designed by Gregory M. Smith and Aces High is a new aerial combat game set during WWI from Aleph Game Studio.
Our RAW video for CSS The Enemy is at the Gates: The Battle for Berlin from Compass Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/28/r...
RAW Video: CSS The Enemy is at the Gates: The Battle for Berlin from Compass Games
The Enemy is at the Gates: Battle for Berlin is the second installment in the Modern War Series using the Company Scale System but that adds in some new rules to show the t…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Our RAW video for CSS The Enemy is at the Gates: The Battle for Berlin from Compass Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/28/r...
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Much to be thankful for this year, including @playersaidblog.bsky.social including #ManeuverWarfare on their 2025 Holiday Wargamers Buyers’ Guide! It truly is a great stocking (or cargo pocket) stuffer for the Marine (or soldier, sailor, gamer, etc) in your life!
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November 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Much to be thankful for this year, including @playersaidblog.bsky.social including #ManeuverWarfare on their 2025 Holiday Wargamers Buyers’ Guide! It truly is a great stocking (or cargo pocket) stuffer for the Marine (or soldier, sailor, gamer, etc) in your life!
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My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #56: SA-2’s from Fire in the Lake: Insurgency in Vietnam from GMT Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/27/m...
My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #56: SA-2’s from Fire in the Lake: Insurgency in Vietnam from GMT Games
With this My Favorite Wargame Cards Series, I hope to take a look at a specific card from the various wargames that I have played and share how it is used in the game. I am not a strategist and fra…
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November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #56: SA-2’s from Fire in the Lake: Insurgency in Vietnam from GMT Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/27/m...
Happy Turkey Day! I hope you have plenty of food, friends and fun on this day at your table.
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Happy Turkey Day! I hope you have plenty of food, friends and fun on this day at your table.
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All Catastrophe games are on sale now, 20% off using Cancer2025! And we just lowered the price of Zurmat to $50 and Patria Libre to $40. (and pleasantly surprised to see Zurmat made Grant's 2025 buyer's guide!) Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
The Holiday Wargamers Buyer’s Guide – 2025 Edition is up and has discount codes for 10-40% off from 16 different publishers! Merry Christmas and happy hunting! theplayersaid.com/2025/11/26/h...
Holiday Wargamers Buyer’s Guide – 2025 Edition
My favorite time of the year is the holidays! Thanksgiving and Christmas are always such a great time with food, family, friends, football and games around the holiday table. Around this time of ye…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
All Catastrophe games are on sale now, 20% off using Cancer2025! And we just lowered the price of Zurmat to $50 and Patria Libre to $40. (and pleasantly surprised to see Zurmat made Grant's 2025 buyer's guide!) Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
These showed up today fresh off of Kickstarter. Secession 1861 and The Armada from Fortress Games.
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
These showed up today fresh off of Kickstarter. Secession 1861 and The Armada from Fortress Games.
The Holiday Wargamers Buyer’s Guide – 2025 Edition is up and has discount codes for 10-40% off from 16 different publishers! Merry Christmas and happy hunting! theplayersaid.com/2025/11/26/h...
Holiday Wargamers Buyer’s Guide – 2025 Edition
My favorite time of the year is the holidays! Thanksgiving and Christmas are always such a great time with food, family, friends, football and games around the holiday table. Around this time of ye…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Holiday Wargamers Buyer’s Guide – 2025 Edition is up and has discount codes for 10-40% off from 16 different publishers! Merry Christmas and happy hunting! theplayersaid.com/2025/11/26/h...
Our interview with Uwe Walentin designer of Neither King Nor God – Ltd Pilot Edition from Sound of Drums. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/25/i...
Interview with Uwe Walentin Designer of Neither King Nor God – Ltd Pilot Edition from Sound of Drums
Sound of Drums who has made some really great looking games over the past few years including their History of the Ancient Seas Trilogy (HOTAS: HELLAS, HOTAS: DIES IRAE and …
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November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Our interview with Uwe Walentin designer of Neither King Nor God – Ltd Pilot Edition from Sound of Drums. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/25/i...
Grant shares his thoughts on the November 2025 Monthly Update from GMT Games – A New Block Wargame in the Triumph & Tragedy and Conquest & Consequence Family and “Blockbuster Year End Project Updates”! theplayersaid.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 2025 Monthly Update from GMT Games – A New Block Wargame in the Triumph & Tragedy and Conquest & Consequence Family and “Blockbuster Year End Project Updates”!
Talk about ending the year with a bang….GMT has outdone themselves with the Update this month as they have announced a very cool looking block wargame that takes parts of 2 of their previous …
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November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Grant shares his thoughts on the November 2025 Monthly Update from GMT Games – A New Block Wargame in the Triumph & Tragedy and Conquest & Consequence Family and “Blockbuster Year End Project Updates”! theplayersaid.com/2025/11/24/n...
Our unboxing video for The French and Indian War Game from The Historical Game Company. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/22/u...
Unboxing Video: The French and Indian War Game from The Historical Game Company
The French and Indian War Game is a strategic dice rolling game of conquest covering the French and Indian War in North America with a British Player and a French Player. Players attempt to conquer…
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November 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Our unboxing video for The French and Indian War Game from The Historical Game Company. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/22/u...
Our video review for 85′ Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires from Flying Pig Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/20/v...
Video Review: 85′ Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires from Flying Pig Games
In 2017, we played ’65 when it was released on Kickstarter. This was Volume I in the Squad Battles Series and uses a very interesting Card Driven Game mechanic where the cards are multi-use and are…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our video review for 85′ Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires from Flying Pig Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/20/v...
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Designer Interview | Assault Games | Spiel 2025 | The Players Aid
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November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #55: Common European Home from 1989: Dawn of Freedom from @gmtgames.bsky.social theplayersaid.com/2025/11/18/m...
My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #55: Common European Home from 1989: Dawn of Freedom from GMT Games
With this My Favorite Wargame Cards Series, I hope to take a look at a specific card from the various wargames that I have played and share how it is used in the game. I am not a strategist and fra…
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November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #55: Common European Home from 1989: Dawn of Freedom from @gmtgames.bsky.social theplayersaid.com/2025/11/18/m...
These arrived today. 2 great games on the Battle of Stalingrad.
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
These arrived today. 2 great games on the Battle of Stalingrad.
Our interview with Fabrizio Vianello Designer of First Man in Rome – Strategikon Book II: The Civil War and the Fall of the Republic from Thin Red Line Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/17/i...
Interview with Fabrizio Vianello Designer of First Man in Rome – Strategikon Book II: The Civil War and the Fall of the Republic from Thin Red Line Games
If you are a monster wargame fan then you are probably familiar with Thin Red Line Games and the genius behind the madness Fabrizio Vianello. They are a small but passionate publisher and my favori…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Our interview with Fabrizio Vianello Designer of First Man in Rome – Strategikon Book II: The Civil War and the Fall of the Republic from Thin Red Line Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/17/i...
Our unboxing video for Bayonet & Musket Series, Volume 1: Banish All Their Fears from GMT Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/16/u...
Unboxing Video: Bayonet & Musket Series, Volume 1: Banish All Their Fears from GMT Games
The Bayonet & Musket Battles Series is GMT’s follow-up to the extremely popular Musket & Pike Series, showing the movement of European warfare from tactical systems base…
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November 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our unboxing video for Bayonet & Musket Series, Volume 1: Banish All Their Fears from GMT Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/16/u...
Another unboxing video today for the massive and highly anticipated Imperial Elegy: The Road to the Great War 1850-1920 from VUCA Simulations.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Another unboxing video today for the massive and highly anticipated Imperial Elegy: The Road to the Great War 1850-1920 from VUCA Simulations.
Snuck in 1 more quick unboxing video for Traces of Victory from VUCA Simulations.
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Snuck in 1 more quick unboxing video for Traces of Victory from VUCA Simulations.
The postman knocks and I get another game. Siberian Manhunt from Dangerous Games. 2-player asymmetrical hidden movement game where the Soviets are searching for a downed U2 pilot.
November 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The postman knocks and I get another game. Siberian Manhunt from Dangerous Games. 2-player asymmetrical hidden movement game where the Soviets are searching for a downed U2 pilot.
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Monthly Debrief time from our friends
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Future Classics | Monthly Debrief - S5E9-10 Sept-Oct 2025 | The Players' Aid
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November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Monthly Debrief time from our friends
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Prior to watching IU Football on this beautiful Saturday had a chance to do a few unboxing videos for Neither King Nor God Limited Edition from Sound of Drums and Fighters of Europe from Capsicum Games.
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Prior to watching IU Football on this beautiful Saturday had a chance to do a few unboxing videos for Neither King Nor God Limited Edition from Sound of Drums and Fighters of Europe from Capsicum Games.
Prior to watching IU Football on this beautiful Saturday had a chance to do a few unboxing videos for Neither King Nor God Limited Edition from Sound of Drums and Fighters of Europe from Capsicum Games.
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Prior to watching IU Football on this beautiful Saturday had a chance to do a few unboxing videos for Neither King Nor God Limited Edition from Sound of Drums and Fighters of Europe from Capsicum Games.